infervesco

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

in-fervesco, ferbŭi, 3,

v. inch. n. , to boil down , to boil , to grow hot , be heated : fabae tertia pars ut infervescat, Cato R. R. 90: mulsum quod inferbuit, Cels. 2, 30: hoc ubi inferbuit, Hor. S. 2, 4, 67: ne infervescat aqua sole, be heated , Plin. 19, 12, 60, § 183.— Poet.: solem infervescere fronti arcet, to burn on the forehead , Sil. 13, 341.

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